This very highly recommended, budget-friendly wine is drinking just beautifully now. Balanced flavors and bright acidity make this morning and easy companion for most fine meals. At a price that won’t bust your budget. If you do decide to sample today’s wine, just be sure to purchase a few extras to keep on hand for the next few years. This wine will certainly continue to evolve overtime. Decant for best results and be rewarded with a wine whose flavor profile really comes alive, offering a softer feel and brighter, more authentic fruit.

Lush, dusky aromas of dark raspberry, black cherry and wild strawberry jump from the glass. As the wine opens up - with some hearty swirling - it reveals a bevvy of follow-on aromatics. These include sweet Blackberry, spiced cherry candy, blackcurrant, cigarbox, sweet leather, violets and a hint of peppercorn.

Very long and lush, with a mouth coating presence that lingers on for a very long time. Dark flavors of ripe black fruit, spice, wood and a soft minerality fade very gradually. At the very end a subtle graphite flavor remains behind for a long time.

Varietal Composition

Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache, Syrah, and Carignane.

Appellation

Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara County

Production

260 Cases

Alcohol

15.4%

About the Winery

When Fess Parker was cast in the roll of Davy Crockett in the mid-1950’s, it caused an international sensation and changed his life forever. So too did the purchase of 714 acres in the Santa Ynez Valley change the course of the Parker family’s history.

Realizing the potential of Santa Barbara County as a premium grape-growing region, Fess and his son, Eli, originally set out in 1989 to plant a small vineyard and sell fruit to local producers. But, as Fess’ daughter, Ashley explains, “ Fess is from Texas, so he can’t do anything small. “The Fess Parker Winery and Vineyard now farms almost 700 acres on four vineyards throughout Santa Barbara County.

The characters Fess portrayed, Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, inspired generations of Americans. Throughout the late 1950’s and 1960’s Fess was at the pinnacle of a television career that has an unprecedented impact upon American popular culture. But it was Fess’ entrepreneurial spirit that prompted his leaving Hollywood to go into business for himself. The traits that Crockett and Boone embodied - integrity, resourcefulness and good humor – carried over to Fess’ personal life and formed the foundation upon which the family business was built. First-class hospitality has always been at the core of their ventures, first as hoteliers and eventually with the opening of the winery.

Working as a family has always been a great source of pride and pleasure for the Parker family. Eli Parker began in the family business as assistant winemaker in 1989. After several years of learning the craft at the side of renowned and accomplished winemakers, Eli took the reigns as winemaker himself with the 1995 vintage. A leader of the winery since its inception, it was in 1996 that Eli formally assumed the title and responsibilities of President. In the early 1990’s, Ashley ran the first tastings out of the barrel room and represented the winery at trade shows. In 1998, Ashley became Eli’s partner, working on the public relations and sales and marketing teams. The presence of Fess and his wife Marcy as the founding visionaries of the winery is a vital and enduring one.

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